The season also features a celebration commemorating the centennial anniversary of the premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” the ground-breaking ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky to a score by Igor Stravinsky and performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. This shockingly new artwork debuted on May 29, 1913, and resulted in a riot at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. “The Rite of Spring” premiere is considered a cultural milestone.

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Carolina graduate Sallie Senseney came to teach biology because of three impressive teachers who shared with her the wonders of nature: her mother and father, both teachers, and an island. Her father taught high school biology on Ocracoke Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. When Sensen­­ey wasn’t in his classroom, she explored the sandy, windy,…